US4104207A - Process for production of cellular cavities in thermoplastic material in which the medium which forms the gas bubbles is bound to a carrier - Google Patents

Process for production of cellular cavities in thermoplastic material in which the medium which forms the gas bubbles is bound to a carrier Download PDF

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US4104207A
US4104207A US05/673,528 US67352876A US4104207A US 4104207 A US4104207 A US 4104207A US 67352876 A US67352876 A US 67352876A US 4104207 A US4104207 A US 4104207A
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    • C08ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
    • C08JWORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H
    • C08J9/00Working-up of macromolecular substances to porous or cellular articles or materials; After-treatment thereof
    • C08J9/04Working-up of macromolecular substances to porous or cellular articles or materials; After-treatment thereof using blowing gases generated by a previously added blowing agent
    • C08J9/12Working-up of macromolecular substances to porous or cellular articles or materials; After-treatment thereof using blowing gases generated by a previously added blowing agent by a physical blowing agent
    • C08J9/125Water, e.g. hydrated salts
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29CSHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C44/00Shaping by internal pressure generated in the material, e.g. swelling or foaming ; Producing porous or cellular expanded plastics articles
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    • B29C44/36Feeding the material to be shaped
    • B29C44/46Feeding the material to be shaped into an open space or onto moving surfaces, i.e. to make articles of indefinite length
    • B29C44/50Feeding the material to be shaped into an open space or onto moving surfaces, i.e. to make articles of indefinite length using pressure difference, e.g. by extrusion or by spraying

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  • the subject of the invention relates to a process for production of cell cavities in thermoplastic plastic materials and plastic molding compositions, a foamed plastic produced in this process, and its application.
  • Foamed plastics are produced either by pressureless foaming (mechanically, or by means of foaming agents) or by the sudden expansion of gases, expanding agents or solvents, which at higher temperatures elicit an expanding pressure in the plastic or liquid plastic mass.
  • the cells may be closed or open, i.e. they are interconnected.
  • the manufacture of foamed plastics depending upon various considerations in various field of application, is brought about with quite different structural and material properties in the individual foamed plastics.
  • One aspect, involving addition of expanding agents to the thermoplastic plastics consists in reduction of the amount of material that is used, by formation of cavities.
  • This advantage is achieved by keeping the concentration of the medium that forms the cellular cavities by gasification in the carrier material, for example the lignocellulose-containing fibers, below the threshold at which these fibers begin to release their moisture to the ambient air.
  • This threshold is determined by the vapor pressure of the atmosphere in question, and is adjustable in closed systems.
  • compositions according to the invention may be undertaken with the same apparatus and tools with which thermoplastic materials otherwise charged in the usual way without cellular cavities are worked.
  • the volumetric weight of the manufactured product can be influenced by a corresponding content of the aqueous medium that develops the cellular cavities by gasification.
  • the strength coefficients can be differentiatingly set by the content, character and length of the lignocellulose-containing fibers that are to be worked in. Here it is important to distribute the fibers uniformly in the material. They orient themselves during the processing, for example during plasticizing in a screw, in the flow direction of the material, and improve the bending rupture strength or the compression strength of soft plastics.
  • cellulose or lignocellulose containing fibers it may be advantageous -- instead of the cellulose or lignocellulose containing fibers -- to work in particles from the bark of the cork oak, or cork particles and bast fibers from the bark of those woods whose contents, in addition to colloidally bound water, support the expansion process and allow it to proceed in a differentiated way.
  • the differentiatingly adjustable expansion process with such cork bark particles improves especially soft-adjusted plastic extrusion products, in their elasticity and compression strength.
  • bark cork particles of this kind have a low reinforcing effect, it is advantageous to work in bark bast fibers particularly, into the composition. They have a balancing effect. In comparison to cellulose or shredded wood, these bark bast fibers have substantially higher strength coefficients. Bark cork and bark bast occur as waste products, in large quantities, in wood debarking for paper and pulp manufacture.
  • the necessary filler content can be made optimal.
  • Fiber reinforcements and fillers can lead in certain circumstances to structured surfaces with distinct longitudinal orientation.
  • thermoplastic foamed plastic or foamed plastic molding composition with closed cellular cavities, characterized by a content, in the form of finely divided particles, of a carrier with poor thermal conductivity that can bind a gas bubble forming medium by capillary and/or molecular binding.
  • foamed plastic is suitable for manufacture of shaped parts, shaped pieces, mats or webs, by extrusion.
  • products can be manufactured with hard-adjusted or soft-adjusted plastics with various properties.
  • Hard-adjusted shaped parts and plates as contrasted to those without cellular cavities, have less weight, less thermal conductivity and less sound propagation, and only very slightly reduced strength.
  • pure foamed plastics prepared according to conventional processes they present substantially higher strength coefficients, so that they can be utilized for bearing structures, which is excluded as far as conventional foamed plastics are concerned.
  • Soft-adjusted shaped parts, plates or webs according to the invention offer increased compression strength and variable properties of elasticity, which afford favorable values for the damping of the sound of foot-steps and for thermal insulation when they are used, for example, as floor covering.
  • thermoplastic and related plastics may be used, especially extrudable plastics, e.g. polyvinyl chloride, polyolefins, polyethylene, polypropylene, acrilonitrile butadiene styrene polymers or the like, whereby the plastic or plastic mixture may have added to it fillers, softeners, stabilizers, pigments, fireproofing agents etc in the known way.
  • the added quantity of carrier material and of gas bubble forming agent therewith is exclusively dependent upon the desired volumentric weight, i.e. the proportion of cell cavities to total cross section and the desired strength coefficients.
  • to 100 % by weight plastic compound 5 to 25% by weight carrier material, including the bubble forming agent, is added.
  • the proportion of gas bubble forming agent is preferably 10 to 30 % by weight to 100% by weight carrier material.
  • Polyvinyl chloride, polyolefins, polyethylene, polypropylene, acrilobutadiene styrene polymers and mixtures of such plastics are used as extrudable plastics.
  • Fillers, softeners, stabilizes, pigments, fireproofing agents etc are added to the individual thermoplastic materials.
  • fillers are chalk, plaster, lime, slate dust, mica powder, pearl white, asbestos etc.
  • Hydrophilic mineral fillers are especially kaolin and alumina.
  • the proportion of filler material can be between 5 and 50% by weight calculated on the amount of thermoplastic material that is used. Preferably it should range between 10 and 30 % by weight. Hydrophilic mineral fillers and ordinary fillers may be added alone or as a mixture.
  • the proportion of such materials should range between 5 and 25% by weight calculated on the plastic material.
  • Carrier materials are preferably vegetable materials. Here rather large particles are involved, generally with a minimum diameter of 350 ⁇ and a length of 1 to 8 mm.
  • the proportion of vegetable substance, including water and gas bubble forming material should be between 5 and 25% by weight calculated on the utilized plastic material, including all fillers and ancillary agents.
  • the proportion of the gas bubble forming agent, i.e. water or aqueous dispersion, calculated on the carrier material, is 8 to 30% by weight to 100% by weight carrier material. Larger proportions of water or aqueous dispersions lead to irregular and unequal formation of cellular cavities.
  • the mixture that forms the gas bubbles is advantageously water.
  • dispersions that consist for example of water and oil, water and alcohol, water and essential oils, and mixtures of these.
  • lignocellulose fibers e.g. pine wood fibers, containing 10 parts by weight water
  • the extruded shaped parts had an average density of 0.8 grams per cc.
  • they have a density that is about 30% less.
  • the density of the extruded plastic molding composition without lignocellulose containing fibers and kaolin is about 1.14 gram per cc.
  • the reduction of the density of the material per the invention is to be attributed to the corresponding reduction of the amount of plastic, PVC in the example, with simultaneous formation of cellular cavities.

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US7883651B1 (en) * 2002-11-18 2011-02-08 Lords Additives LLC Lignoellulosic, borate filled, thermoplastic composites
US7718251B2 (en) 2006-03-10 2010-05-18 Amesbury Group, Inc. Systems and methods for manufacturing reinforced weatherstrip
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CN114775102A (zh) * 2022-04-08 2022-07-22 宁波杰出新材料有限公司 一种含气泡热塑性弹性体材料及其制备方法
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